This librarian's FAVORITE source for international news and magazines

Library PressDisplayCurrent day and 89 previous days of more than 1,000 newspapers, news magazines, tabloids, and special interest magazines from around the world. Full text searchable PDF images of newspapers' print editions, with many special features -- article translation, reading, and more.

Many languages and many countries; many types of publications, from serious news (Le Monde) to free dailys (24 heures), tabloids, and special interest magazines.Coverage: most recent 90 days for most titles.

Mideastwire.com (subscription) Coverage: September 2005 to date. Selected articles from news sources and newsletters. Arabic and Farsi originals. English translations.

SCOLA streaming media service

The SCOLA streaming service rebroadcasts news and cultural programming from about 70 countries in about 55 languages.

Cornell subscribes to all five of SCOLA's channels. This service is available to anyone in the Cornell community, on request.

Channel 1: assorted news (also available on Time-Warner cable)

Channel 2: more cultural and variety programming, from many countries

Channel 3: Chinese programming

Channel 4: broadcasts from mostly Asian countries

Channel 5: Africa and the Middle East

Cornell's service permits two kinds of desktop access to all five channels, on Macs and PCs, as well as a one-week rolling archive of all five channels in the form of downloadable (usually) half-hour digital files.

To obtain the instructions and password needed to access all five SCOLA channels, write to rf10@cornell.edufrom a Cornell email address. The email should beblank, with the subject "SCOLA Password".

Historical international news content

Google News and Google News Archive These now-abandoned projects had spotty coverage for most titles, but some long runs of titles from the U.S., Canada, Australia, South Asia. Searcheable PDFs. The only legacy remaining is a a browsable title list that includes years covered for each title: http://news.google.com/newspapers.